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IPRED Versus the Sharing of Culture: Moving Away from Enforcement
March 2011 IPRED Versus The Sharing of Culture: Moving Away From Enforcement Response to the European Commission's consultation on the “Intellectual Property Rights” Enforcement Directive (IPRED). La Quadrature du Net | 1 Executive summary: EU's Internet policy at crossroads More than 10 years after adopting a framework for the development of information society services and the promotion of freedom of expression online, the European Union faces a crucial choice: It can either pursue the promotion of democratic goals and innovation in the digital environment, or remain blind to social and technical realities by enforcing a copyright regime that is at its very core unadapted to the Internet. Sadly, the European Commission's documents regarding the revision of the “Intellectual Property Rights” Enforcement Directive (IPRED) suggests that forces of the status quo could prevail. In the age of the Internet, where any citizen can have access to a global communications infrastructure to access and disseminate culture and knowledge, our legal system must give up on the idea that each instance of transmission of artistic works must be submitted to prior authorization, especially in cases of non-profit transmission. The debate needs to move away from enforcement and focus on financing schemes and business-models that can accommodate widespread social practices, such as non- commercial file-sharing of cultural works, while providing appropriate resources for creative activities. However, the Internal Market Directorate General of the EU Commission, which is supervising the revision of IPRED, appears too much in line with the copyright industry to break away from outdated policies. Even though it has undertaken laudable efforts to create a more integrated single digital market, its determination to repress non-commercial sharing of cultural goods over the Internet is endangering the technical and legal architecture on which are based the democratic and economic potential of the Internet. -
For the Encouragement of Learning
For the Encouragement of Learning Copyright 1710-2010 Anniversary Forum London, 9 April 2010 “For the Encouragement of Learning” The world’s first copyright law was passed by the English Parliament on 10 April 1710 as ‘An Act for the Encouragement of Learning’. The Queen Anne Statute, as it is known, marked the beginning of modern copyright law. Professor Gillian Davies, author of ‘Copyright and the Public Interest’, describes it as ‘the foundation upon which the modern concept of copyright in the Western world was built’, quoting Halsbury’s ‘Laws of England’, edited by Lord Hailsham, as saying, ‘In changing the conceptual nature of copyright, it became the most important single event in copyright history’ and Barbara Ringer, US Registrar of Copyrights, as saying, ‘It is the mother of us all, and a very possessive mother at that.’ The 300th anniversary provides a unique opportunity to review copyright’s purposes and principles. If today we were starting from scratch, but with the same aim of encouraging learning‚ what kind of copyright would we want? To answer this question, the British Council is organising a series of meetings in London, Shanghai and elsewhere. Our starting point is the question, What is the purpose of copyright? And, once that is agreed, even tentatively, how could we achieve it? Is the list of ‘qualifying works’ the right one? Should copyright arise automatically or should rights be registered? Is ‘copyright’ the appropriate name? How do we balance access and ownership? What are the optimal lengths of copyright terms? What is the role of moral rights, and of personal data and privacy? What do we mean by ‘fair’ in the phrases ‘fair dealing’ and ‘fair use’ and how do we uphold this fairness in practice? Is fairness in a physical world different from fairness in the digital space? How do we define unlawful copying and how do we promote a fair regime of sanctions and penalties? The possibilities of creating and copying have expanded dramatically in recent years. -
November 11-13, 2010 Hilversum and Amsterdam, the Netherlands Inhoudelijk En financiële Verantwoording Economies of the Commons 2, November 2010
November 11-13, 2010 Hilversum and Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.ecommons.eu Inhoudelijk en financiële verantwoording Economies of the Commons 2, november 2010 Stichting Nederland Kennisland Keizersgracht 174 1016 DW Amsterdam +31 205756720 / http://www.kennisland.nl 2 / 48 1 ECONOMIES OF THE COMMONS 2 ....................................................................................4 1.1 BELANGRIJKSTE OPGELEVERDE RESULTATEN ........................................................................4 1.2 HTTP://WWW.ECOMMONS.EU/ ..............................................................................................5 1.3 PROGRAM ..........................................................................................................................6 2 BLOGPOSTS ..........................................................................................................................8 TOWARDS A RADICAL ARCHIVE: DE BALIEʼS ERIC KLUITENBERG ..................................................9 WHEN LIBRARIES EMBRACE THE DIGITAL FUTURE: INTERVIEW WITH KB'S IRMGARD BOMERS ......10 ARCHIVING IN CONVERGENCE: EUROPEANA'S DYNAMIC PORTAL ...............................................12 THE NETWORKED VAULT: INTERVIEW WITH MAARTEN BRINKERINK OF THE NETHERLANDSʼ INSTITUTE OF SOUND AND VISION ............................................................................................................................13 WHEN THE COPY'S NO EXCEPTION: INTERVIEW WITH KENNISLAND'S PAUL KELLER ...........15 PETER KAUFMAN ON APPRECIATING AUDIOVISUAL VALUE -
Battling Bankers: Insights on Financial Power from the Grassroots
STATE OF POWER 2019 Battling Bankers Insights on financial power from the grassroots Interview with Simona Levi, Alvin Mosioma and Joel Benjamin Worldwide, countless activists are engaged in challenging unjust financial power on a daily basis. Few are financial experts or economists but citizens who through their struggles have gained an understanding of financial power that few academics can rival. TNI had the privilege of talking to three warriors against the international banking cartel – a theatre director in Spain, a tax justice leader in Kenya and a local government campaigner in the UK – to hear about their struggles and the insights they have picked up that have relevance to all of us. Simona Levi, a theatre director and performance artist, is based in Barcelona. With her small group Xnet, she succeeded in getting former IMF chief and Bankia executive Rato and 17 others sentenced to prison in 2018 for their financial crimes and role in Spain’s economic crisis. Alvin Mosioma is based in Nairobi and with others stopped a tax avoidance treaty between Kenya and Mauritius. He helped organise the first World Social Forum in Kenya and is the founding Executive Director of Tax Justice Network-Africa. Joel Benjamin is based in London. His work with Debt Resistance UK has exposed a slew of toxic loans sold under false pretences to local authorities and has prompted major lawsuits, parliamentary enquiries and extensive media coverage. State of Power 2019: Finance 16 What finance-related campaigns are you involved in right now? Alvin: Our work revolves around how to ensure finance works for people. -
Felix Stalder Digital Solidarity
Digital Solidarity Digital Digital Solidarity Felix Stalder Felix Stalder’s extended essay, Digital Solidarity, responds to / Digital the wave of new forms of networked organisation emerging from and colliding with the global economic crisis of 2008. Felix Stalder Across the globe, voluntary association, participatory decision- Solidarity making and the sharing of resources, all widely adopted Felix Stalder online, are being translated into new forms of social space. This movement operates in the breach between accelerating technical innovation, on the one hand, and the crises of institutions which organise, or increasingly restrain society on the other. Through an inventory of social forms – commons, assemblies, swarms and weak networks – the essay outlines how far we have already left McLuhan’s ‘Gutenberg Galaxy’ behind. In his cautiously optimistic account, Stalder reminds us that the struggles over where we will arrive are only just beginning. Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute and the Post-Media Lab Mute Books Price €5 £4.25 $6.75 Cover image: Simon Worthington Digital Solidarity Felix Stalder A collaboration between the Post-Media Lab & Mute Books Anti copyright © 2013 Mute Except for those images which originally appeared elsewhere and are republished here, all content is copyright Mute and the authors. However, Mute encourages the use of its content for purposes that are non-commercial, critical, or disruptive of capitalist property relations. Please make sure you credit the author and Mute as the original publishers. This legend is devised in the absence of a licence which adequately represents this contributor’s and publisher’s respective positions on copyright, and to acknowledge but deny the copyrighting performed by default where copyright is waived. -
Are Eu Governments Taking Whistleblower Protection Seriously?
ARE EU GOVERNMENTS TAKING WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION SERIOUSLY? Progress report on transposition of the EU Directive Transparency International is a global movement with one vision: a world in which government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. With more than 100 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, we are leading the fight against corruption to turn this vision into reality. www.transparency.org The Whistleblowing International Network is an international membership organisation and leading centre of global civil society expertise and innovation in whistleblowing law and practice. whistleblowingnetwork.org Are EU Governments Taking Whistleblower Protection Seriously? Progress Report on Transposition of the EU Directive Supported by a grant from the Open Society Policy Center in cooperation with the Open Society Initiative of Europe (OSIFE), part of the Open Society Foundations. Author: Marie Terracol Contributors: Anna Myers, Ida Nowers and all the country experts (listed on page 30) Reviewers: Matthew Jenkins, Adam Földes, Julius Hinks, John Devitt, Jan Dupák, Carina Paju, Nick Aiossa Cover: Miikka Luotio / Unsplash.com Every effort has been made to verify the accuracy of the information contained in this report. All information was believed to be correct as of February 2021. Nevertheless, Transparency International and the Whistleblowing International Network cannot accept responsibility for the consequences of its use for other purposes or in other contexts. ISBN: 978-3-96076-168-6 2021 Transparency International and Whistleblowing International Network. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0 DE. Quotation permitted. Please contact Transparency International – [email protected] – regarding derivatives requests. -
Free Culture Forum with Special Guest Lawrence Lessig
Media Advisory Free Culture Forum With special guest Lawrence Lessig For Immediate Release Date: March 23rd, 2006 Time: 11:30 am - 2:30pm Location: 450 Dodge Hall, Northeastern University For: Students, faculty, staff and the public Cost: Free Join us for a lively discussion on issues related to free culture including artistic freedom, the public domain, copyright, control of the media, open access, open source, free software, academic journals, institutional repositories, and consumer rights. Learn about organizations and projects such as Creative Commons and the Directory of Open Access Journals that support open dialogue and public access to creative works—from scientific, scholarly journals to websites, from photography to music, from literature to courseware. What is the free culture movement? A healthy, vibrant culture must continually be improved and refashioned by those who live in it. This requires a thriving public domain and cultural commons that anyone can build upon or reshape. To achieve this ideal, free culture seeks to promote open intellectual property policy and channel the power of technology toward appreciation, creation, and distribution of participatory culture. According to Lawrence Lessig, free culture is concerned with big media protecting the interests of big media over creators. Free culture supports and protects creators and innovators and seeks the transformation of culture through the free exchange of ideas. The Participants A panel of free culture advocates and experts and you! Professor Lawrence Lessig, Founder, Creative Commons & author of Free Culture Derek Slater, Activist, Electronic Frontier Foundation Nelson Pavlosky, Founder, FreeCulture.Org William Wakeling, Associate Dean, Northeastern University Libraries The Design A panel structure to facilitate high-level interaction between the audience and speakers that will enrich general understanding of free culture by means of free culture -- community collaboration and contribution. -
Deliverable 5.3 National Dissemination Workshops
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under grant agreement No 645852 EU Grant Agreement number: 645852 Project acronym: DIGIWHIST Project title: The Digital Whistleblower: Fiscal Transparency, Risk Assessment and the Impact of Good Governance Policies Assessed Work Package: 5 - Dissemination Title of deliverable: 5.3 National dissemination workshops Due date of deliverable: 28.02.2018 Actual submission date: XX Authors: Francesco Calderoni, Martina Rotondi, Riccardo Milani, Marina Mancuso and Ernesto U.Savona Organization name of lead beneficiary for this deliverable: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime Dissemination Level PU Public x PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Co Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission All rights reserved. This document has been published thanks to the support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under grant agreement No 645852. The information and views set out in this publication are those of the author(s) only and do not reflect any collective opinion of the DIGIWHIST consortium, nor do they reflect the official opinion of the European Commission. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the European Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information 1 DIGIWHIST National -
COMMUNIA Final Report
Deliverable D.1.11 COMMUNIA Final Report ECP‐2006‐PSI‐610001 COMMUNIA http://COMMUNIA‐project.eu/ Final Report Deliverable number/name Deliverable D1.11: Final Report Dissemination level Public Delivery date March 31, 2011 Status FINAL VERSION TO REVIEWERS Main Author Giancarlo F. Frosio This document incorporates the results of several months of discussions among COMMUNIA members. The main author and the project coordinator wish to thank everyone who contributed, and particularly Lucie Guibault, Paul Keller, Séverine Dusollier and Patrick Peiffer whose comments and analyzes have greatly enhanced this text. eContentplus This project is funded under the eContentplus prograMMe,1 a Multiannual CoMMunity prograMMe to Make digital content in Europe More accessible, usable and exploitable. 1 O.J. L 79 (March 24, 2005), at 1. 1 Deliverable D.1.11 COMMUNIA Final Report 2 Deliverable D.1.11 COMMUNIA Final Report CONTENTS CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................................ 3 COMMUNIA FINAL REPORT .................................................................................................................................. 7 WHAT IS THE PUBLIC DOMAIN? ........................................................................................................................... 7 THE VALUE OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR EUROPE ................................................................................................. 11 PUBLIC DOMAIN CHALLENGES -
FAKE NEWS Y Desinformacion ------#Fakeyou
Informe para la acción estratégica y legislativa --------------------- FAKE NEWS Y DESINFORMACIoN ---------------------#FakeYou MONOPOLIOS DE LA MANIPULACIÓN INFORMATIVA [(TUS) GOBIERNOS | PARTIDOS POLÍTICOS | MASS MEDIA (NO PERIODISTAS) | CORPORACIONES] Y RECORTES DE LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN Por Xnet VERSIÓN BETA SIN MAQUETAR ABIERTA A PEER REVIEW [Para correcciones y sugerencias, por favor, copiad la/s palabra/s o párrafo/s que queréis enmendar y mandad redacción alternativa con, si necesaria, motivación indicado el número de página, al email: [email protected]] Coordinación: Simona Levi Autores: Simona Levi, Robert Guixaró y Max Carbonell, Gemma Palau, Elizabeth Bodi, Gemma García, Pol Alberti participantes del Curso de Posgrado Tecnopolítica y Derechos en la Era Digital de la BSM-Universitat Pompeu Fabra dirigido por Simona Levi y Cristina Ribas Con aportaciones de Guillem Martínez, Mariluz Congosto, Alberto Escorcia, Lorin Decarli y Tatiana Bazzichelli (Disruption Network Lab Berlín) Agradecimientos a Alba Gutiérrez, Rubén Sáez, Sergio Salgado, L’entrellat Y en colaboración con Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust Las correcciones de este trabajo se han hecho con fondos de una subvención recibida por Xnet por parte del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona Licencia CC 4.0 by sa Barcelona - 14 de marzo de 2019 VERSION BETA PARA PEER REVIEW By the King. A proclamation to restrain the spreading of false news, and licentious talking of matters of state and government. England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685, King Charles II). Re-printed 1672. “C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King. A PROCLAMATION To Restrain the Spreading of False News, and Licentious Talking of Matters of State and Government. CHARLES R. -
The Practice of Art and AI
Gerfried Stocker, Markus Jandl, Andreas J. Hirsch The Practice of Art and AI ARS ELECTRONICA Art, Technology & Society Contents Gerfried Stocker, Markus Jandl, Andreas J. Hirsch 8 Promises and Challenges in the Practice of Art and AI Andreas J. Hirsch 10 Five Preliminary Notes on the Practice of AI and Art 12 1. AI–Where a Smoke Screen Veils an Opaque Field 19 2. A Wide and Deep Problem Horizon– Massive Powers behind AI in Stealthy Advance 25 3. A Practice Challenging and Promising– Art and Science Encounters Put to the Test by AI 29 4. An Emerging New Relationship–AI and the Artist 34 5. A Distant Mirror Coming Closer– AI and the Human Condition Veronika Liebl 40 Starting the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab 44 Scientific Partners 46 Experiential AI@Edinburgh Futures Institute 48 Leiden Observatory 50 Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero Centro de Arte y Ciencia 52 SETI Institute 54 Ars Electronica Futurelab 56 Scientific Institutions 59 Cultural Partners 61 Ars Electronica 66 Activities 69 Projects 91 Artists 101 CPN–Center for the Promotion of Science 106 Activities 108 Projects 119 Artists 125 The Culture Yard 130 Activities Contents Contents 132 Projects 139 Artists 143 Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation 148 Activities 149 Projects 155 Artists 159 GLUON 164 Activities 165 Projects 168 Artists 171 Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Science 175 Activities 177 Projects 182 Artists 185 Kersnikova Institute / Kapelica Gallery 190 Activities 192 Projects 200 Artists 203 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial 208 Activities -
Remember Remember, the 4Th of July
Remember remember, the 4th of July Internet Freedom in the European Union and the vote on ACTA Master thesis for the Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University Master program New Media & Digital Culture 2011-2012 Author Lindsy Szilvasi [email protected] August 31, 2012 2 To my grandfather. My hero, my inspiration. Mies ✝2012 3 4 Foreword “Remember, remember, the Fi-h of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he aHempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgoHen, but 400 years later, an idea can sMll change the world.” “...fairness, jusMce, and freedom are more than words, they are perspecves.” (From the movie V for Vende0a 2005) I would like to express my gratude to a few persons who have given me the support and inspiraon for wri4ng this thesis and have made a valuable contribu4on. First of all, dr. Imar de Vries and Mirko-Tobias Schäfer for the instruc4ons, feedback and evaluaon of this thesis. Secondly, all the Bits of Freedom members for giving me the opportunity of being part of a team that fights for our online liber4es and rights, and for giving me the unique chance of mee4ng other inspiring Internet freedom fighters, including a look inside the European Parliament.